03.1997
We launch our first internet portal, chemie.de, as a research project at Freie Universität Berlin. We want professionals in chemistry to find specialist information faster and easier.
06.2000
Claus Schröter, Thomas Richter, Hans Benedict and Stefan Knecht set up the CHEMIE.DE Information Service GmbH in Berlin. Our mission is to revolutionize the search for information in chemistry and the related natural sciences. While the dot-com bubble is bursting around us, we enter into a successful future.
10.2001
To provide the emerging biotechnology sector and life science industry with day-to-day specialist information, we launch bionity.com.
03.2003
Together with the leading international trade fair analytica we launch the international portal analytica-world.com. We want it to deliver news from the industry to users in lab technology, analytics and biotechnology, 24/7 the whole year round – an ideal addition to the periodic analytica trade fairs.
02.2007
The success of chemie.de and bionity.com inspires us. We set up chemeurope.com as an international information resource for the chemical industry and its suppliers.
09.2008
We launch quimica.es to ensure that Spanish-speaking professionals won’t miss out on up-to-date information in chemistry. It quickly develops into the leading portal in Latin America and Spain.
12.2008
To further expand, we relocate within Berlin to premises at Mediaspree – an ideal environment for our growth ambitions.
01.2011
After 14 years, it’s time to completely redesign the portal technology we’d advanced step-by-step. We develop a new technical framework for our portals, give them a completely new design and many new features for our users.
04.2014
Together with Mettler-Toledo, we launch q-more.com. We attract internationally renowned authors who report on current research topics in an easy-to-read style – all to improve the flow of know-how between research and industry.
04.2017
We take over yumda, the B2B portal for the food and beverage industry. For the first time, we expand our portfolio to B2B markets outside the natural sciences. At the same time, we gain a dedicated team at our new location in Nuremberg.
08.2017
CHEMIE.DE Information Service GmbH becomes LUMITOS GmbH. LUMITOS – that’s far more than just a new name. LUMITOS is a new company with a set-up that’s unique in the industry. We leverage our industry knowledge, our marketing know-how and the specialist portals we run to bear a completely new range of services. We use these to lead B2B companies and their staff to success.
10.2017
LUMITOS changes its legal form and is now registered as a stock corporation (AG) in the commercial register.
08.2018
Our portals becoming bigger. With Start-ups in the Spotlight, we focus on start-ups from the Chemistry & Laboratory, Life Science & Pharmaceutical and Food & Beverage Industries.
01.2019
When employees work creatively, project-related and on their own responsibility, it makes sense for rigid spatial structures to dissolve. At the beginning of the year, LUMITOS AG moved into its new premises in the science city of Adlershof and implemented its our concept of activity-based workplaces.
2020
LUMITOS AG is setting an example against the challenging background of the current Corona events with new digital formats including an exhibition, premiere show and lecture programme. With the online trade fairs: virtual lab show, virtual process show and analytica virtual, LUMITOS AG offers a new digital meeting platform for the Chemistry & Laboratory, Life Science & Pharmaceutical and Food & Beverage Industries.
2023
A leap into the future: new UX design for our five B2B industry portals.